Leaderless Leadership

By Dr. Edwin Weaver

Unique Leaders' Professional Development Consultants

A few days ago Ed Zander stepped down as CEO of Motorola. This is an example of the ever deepening crisis in the business sector.

Companies are in trouble. They look to person to turn the company around. Someone comes up with a lot of promises and technical talk, but later they can not deliver on those strategy and promises. What is the problem?

In the case of Ed Zander and Motorola, they said that changes have been made. They said that improvements have been made, but the profits tell a different story.

Everything sounded good. From all aspects of the plan, everything should have gone as planned. The company should have turned around. What happened?

The curse of today's business world hit Motorola - Leaderless Leadership. You can have the best plans in the world, but without true leaders, nothing gets done. You can have the best strategy and information, but without true leaders, nothing will be accomplished.

Businesses must plan. Businesses must develop strategies, but most importantly businesses need true leaders. The locating and development or true leaders must supersede all other priorities.

With true leaders at the helm, a company will turn around. Even if it takes longer than needed, the company will turn around and become vibrant again.

Just because the company is not turning around as fast as hoped, is no reason to abandon the ship. Does a leader leave his country, because the country is not going they way he planned? Does a military leader leave his troops because the battle is not going as he planned?

No, true leaders stay until the very end. True leaders continue to encourage and stimulate their troops to win. True leaders do not give up and their followers do not give up. That is one thing that was lacking with Ed Zander and Motorola - followers.

A leader has followers. Followers are loyal to the leader. They will follow him into any battle. They will follow him into the depths of hell if needed, but most in business are not leaders. They are only people placed in authority.

Motorola needs a person who can inspire and motivate the entire company to pull together. Motorola needs a person who truly has concern for the people and a vision for the future of the company and the people in the company. Motorola needs a true leader.

In these uncertain times, the need for true leadership is greater than ever. The lack of true leadership will drive businesses, the US and the world into a pit which will destroy the economies.

Take a look at your company. Do you have a true leader to the top or just people of authority? There is still time to develop good leadership, but time is running out. A financial crisis is looming on the horizon.

Unique Leaders develops true leaders. For almost 20 years, Dr. Weaver has been developing people to be true leaders in business, communities and churches.

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